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b/w still of Ingrid Pitt in Countess Dracula. She is wearing an extravagantly low-cut dress, and fangs, and is rising from a coffin with her mouth wide open in a predatory if slightly comical manner

It’s the 465th anniversary of the birth of Countess Elizabeth (Erzsébet, to be pedantic) Báthory, the world’s most prolific female serial killer, murderer of virgins, blood drinker/bather, inspirer of Bram Stoker, and protagonist of a 1971 Hammer film that’s basically a documentary. Well... 🧵

Oh, that tracks

U of C?

It looks like the books I read when I was 12

Update on day 1: went well! I’d classify today as a good day.

A reader emailing me out of the blue today to thank me for Carrigan's, when I'm feeling my most down about publishing, was such a beautiful moment of kindness.

Tell authors you love their work! Or, you know, at least tell me. I'm an xennial former gifted kid+ I need constant positive reinforcement

always.

TENABLE. dammit.

Will it work? Who's to say? Will it make me feel better? Probably. Is it worth it? I hope so. 4/4

So I'm starting with trying to curb negative self-talk (always a challenge) and hoping that builds some internal positivity. The goal is for some of that hope to spill out and impact those in the circle around me.

I'm also smiling at every fucking person. 3/4

It's affecting my relationship to my work, to my colleagues, my friends, and my family. And that's not something that's teneble. I have the smallest amount of control in the midst of this out-of-control place, and it's centered on how I behave. 2/4

Starting today with a radical new idea: be (as) happy (as I can given the circumstances). 🧵

I'm not a Pollyanna. But I'm also not an Eeyore. And unfortunately, the Eeyore tendencies have started to creep in. 1/4

I’m putting her in my house

catapult genAI into the fucking SUNNNNN

Disney 6.5 ft. Animated LED Maleficent 25SV24406 - The Home Depot The Mistress of All Evil has arrived at The Home Depot. 6.5 ft. Animated LED Maleficent has light up LED eyes and a light up staff that glows green with Dark Magic. She has motion sensor activation an...

LOOK AT HER.

I NEED HER.

www.homedepot.com/p/Disney-6-5...

Everyone shut up there's a 6' animatronic Maleficent available for purchase!

And it’s so…big.

🖤

Oh, my heart. Sending you so much love.

I’m tired.

Agreed one million percent. And I’m so sorry.

what? WHAT??

The CONTENT?

We are so cooked.

The advertising graphic for the Simon & Schuster Fall 2025 Season Showcase for Adult Librarians. Use the link to get all of the info that is on this graphic and more.

Lookee here--

It's me and all of the great books coming from S&S this fall.

@ssedlib.bsky.social

www.simonandschuster.net/p/adult-libr...

I didn’t realize it was part of it.

We went to the Gladiator Museum in the basement of a tchotchke shop in Rome. It was just cheap replicas of Roman military gear and weapons and a fake cell. Super cheesy but the air was heavy.

24. I can’t drive a standard but when I’m driving in a dream, it’s always a stick shift.

23. I’ve lived in five different states and four of the country’s largest metro areas. Chicago beats NYC (for me) by miiiiiilllllleeeessss. (DC is a literal swamp. I’ve never been so sweaty.)